8-letter words containing c, h, i, r, o
- ornithic — of or relating to birds.
- orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the iconoscope, in which a beam of low-velocity electrons scans a photoemissive mosaic.
- orthotic — Also, orthosis. a device or support, especially for the foot, used to relieve or correct an orthopedic problem.
- overrich — having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
- parochin — a parish
- rhetoric — (in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
- rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
- rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
- richmond — a state in the E United States, on the Atlantic coast: part of the historical South. 40,815 sq. mi. (105,710 sq. km). Capital: Richmond. Abbreviation: VA (for use with zip code), Va.
- ricochet — the motion of an object or a projectile in rebounding or deflecting one or more times from the surface over which it is passing or against which it hits a glancing blow.
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- rockfish — any of various fishes found about rocks.
- rolliche — roulade (def 2).
- sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
- strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
- thoracic — of or relating to the thorax.
- torchier — of, relating to, or characteristic of a torch song or a torch singer.
- torching — a light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.
- torchlit — illuminated by the light of a torch or torches
- tovarich — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- trichion — the point of intersection of the normal hairline and the middle line of the forehead.
- trichoid — resembling hair; hairlike.
- trichome — Botany. an outgrowth from the epidermis of plants, as a hair.
- trichord — a musical instrument with three strings
- trochaic — pertaining to the trochee.
- trochite — an individual section of the stalk of a fossil crinoid, resembling a small wheel
- trochoid — Geometry. a curve traced by a point on a radius or an extension of the radius of a circle that rolls, without slipping, on a curve, another circle, or a straight line. Equation: x = aθ − b sin θ, y = a − b cos θ.
- unheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- whipcord — a cotton, woolen, or worsted fabric with a steep, diagonally ribbed surface.